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Re: [PLUG] Re: GUI Mail? In UNIX?!?
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so bynari doesn't support any of outlooks groupware functions?
damn. without that there is little chance of replacing a windows server with
linux.
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 05:59 pm, you wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 10:49:56AM -0400, Time wrote:
> > Call me crazy, but why can't you use mutt for all your mail and have all
> > the mail centralized in one ssh'able location? 8)
>
> I can't because of corporate policy.
>
> ("No, you may not forward mail from the Exchange server.")
>
> ... and I'm not about to pass my password in clear text in order to
> use IMAP or POP3 even on the internal network, thanks.
>
> > If its because you can't get pics/docs/html encoded mail and that's
> > absolutly necessary for survival that's a good answer. Although I
> > usually save those attachments to a htaccess'd directory where I can
> > then view those attachments from a web browser.
>
> Another thing mutt can't do is use any of Outlook's groupware
> functions. I was led to believe that Bynari Insight
> (http://www.bynari.com/) could, but it was a lie. (It's actually
> just a POP3/IMAP client that looks a little like Outlook.) A pretty
> high percentage of the traffic that goes to my work mailbox (which
> PLUG doesn't, btw; nor does it for Mike, he just likes using a GUI
> MUA on whatever workstation he's using at the time to read his mail,
> which is certainly his perogative)... anyway, much of that mail is
> meeting requests or the like that Outlook handles automatically by
> updating my Calender.
>
> Say what you will about Outlook's security, it's only running
> competitor in the groupware market was Novell, and that's basically
> dead. Exchange does what it does pretty well, from a user point of
> view.
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